Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 94

"My son," said she, fixing her dim eyes most lovingly upon him, "this rest that I speak of will be very long indeed!

Who acts: son, Telephassa · What happens: say, fix, speak, be · To what, where: dim eyes, rest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, Telephassa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fixing	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fixing	punct
9	fixing	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 said	ccomp
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
11	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eyes	amod
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fixing	obj
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 lovingly	advmod
14	lovingly	lovingly	ADV	_	9 fixing	advmod
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lovingly	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rest	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 rest	punct
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 rest	det
20	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fixing	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 speak	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 speak	nsubj
23	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 rest	acl:relcl
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 long	case
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 long	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 long	cop
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 long	advmod
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rest	amod
29	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	28 long	advmod
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	My son			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fix	gerund	Telephassa	Telephassa's dim eyes	this rest obl; lovingly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
3	speak speech: other in a quote	present	My son = son	this rest		tree rules
4	is in a quote	future			indeed, long property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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